Welcome
to the Raw Paleolithic Diet Website

This
site has been created by Vinny Pinto, a mystic, remote remote spiritual healer and
consulting
scientist. You may subscribe, as a public subscriber, to Vinny's
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The
primary purpose of this site is to provide information,
articles and links on largely-raw traditional diets which include raw
animal
products along with raw plant (vegetation) products. Such
diets have
been repeatedly implicated in helping people (and animals) to achieve:

rapid recovery from
chronic disease

rapid recovery from
illness

greater health and
vitality

greater stamina and
robustness

normalization of
body weight (gain for those underweight, loss for those overweight)

My
Mission in Presenting This Site

My mission in presenting this site
(it has been
on the air
since about 10/2000) is to offer an educational and balanced,
decidedly non-missionary introduction to Paleolithic
(so-called
"caveman") diets
in general, and especially to the largely-raw versions of these
diets.
You will find no fanaticism, no rigidity, no over-zealousness on these
pages, and no judgments of people or diets which do not conform the
diets
presented here, although you may find some ample -- and sometimes
silly or crazy -- humor. Please enjoy this site;
feel free
to explore it fully! I firmly believe that there is no place
for
fanaticism, fundamentalism, sanctimoniousness or rigidity in diet or
lifestyle.
While I personally choose to eat a largely-raw Paleolithic diet, I
willingly
and lovingly allow my fellow humans the freedom to pick and choose
whatever
diet and lifestyle works for them.

My
background? I have had
a number of careers over my lifetime.
Among many other things, I have broad and deep Master's degree in
health
and wellness research (health sciences), and a wide background in
"alternative"
nutrition and "alternative" healing. To see a more
complete "About the
Author" page, including my resumes, please
click here. To contact the author, please
click here.

Sincerely,
Vinny

Traditional,
Largely-Paleolithic Raw
Foods Diet

For
most of us,
it seems that our nutrition -- what we eat
and drink -- plays a key role in determining much of our health and
vitality,
and, often, the amount of freedom and options in our lives.

As someone with
a lifelong experience and training in modalities
of natural healing, and with a Master's degree in a health-related
field,
it is my opinion and experience that the vast majority of us, likely
over
99 percent of us, do not thrive on a Standard American Diet (SAD) which
is high in cooked and processed foods and refined sugars.
Rather,
the vast majority of us seem to do best on a more traditional diet, far
closer to what our ancestors ate, and far more suited to the
biochemistry
which our genes designed for our bodies. Such a traditional diet may be
eaten either raw or partially-cooked. The partially-cooked
version
(often called the Paleolithic Diet or Caveman
Diet) excludes
any processed or refined foods as well as any foods which entered the
human
diet only in the past few thousand years. Thus, such a diet
excludes
grains, beans, legumes, sweet fruit juices, overly sweet fruits, and
all
processed and refined oils. Such a traditional diet must also
include
some raw fruits and vegetables and will also include some animal
products,
often including some raw animal products as well. Such a diet
usually
allows small amounts of cold-pressed, extra-virgin olive oil as the
only
pourable "vegetable oil". The best single reference source on
the
web for diets of this type (often fully or partially cooked), and one
which
includes links to many other related paleolithic diet sites, is the PaleoDiet
website (off-site link.)

Many of us,
myself included, seem to have done far better
by going one step further than the partially-cooked traditional diet
(also
called Paleolithic Diet or Caveman Diet
) described above,
and eating such a diet all raw. In this dietary system, all
plant
and animal products are eaten fresh and raw, just as our early
ancestors
did before the advent of widespread cooking, and, of course, before
food
processing. Such a diet seems to drastically accelerate
healing and
recovery from chronic diseases and other illnesses far beyond that seen
with the partially-cooked traditional diets. There are
several systems
or philosophies which govern such a diet. All, or almost all,
also
stress the importance of drinking a sizable quantity of fresh and raw
green
juices daily. Incidentally, some folks (a minority) seem to
do well
on a purely vegan (all-plant food) raw foods diet, but the majority
seem
to eventually suffer some problems unless they incorporate some animal
foods or at least animal fats in their diet. There are a
number of
systems, authors, popularizers and books advocating an all-raw diet
which
is essentially Paleolithic and which includes animal foods.
Click
on the link immediately below for an overview of these systems, and
also
an introduction to acronyms, terms and names associated with these
diets.

How Long Will Fresh Raw Vegetable
Juice Keep its Nutritional Value Under Refrigeration? This set of articles includes recommendations
on storage, containers,
and the use of unique antioxidants to lengthen useful life of nutrients
in raw juice. Summary
In Plain English -- Summarizes some current
recommendations,
along
with the study below and some previous studies on raw juice storageResearch
Study -- A Measure of Oxidative Degradation Over
Time of
High-quality
Fresh Raw Vegetable Juice Stored Under Refrigeration: A
Comparison of
Refrigerated Stored Untreated Raw Juice with Raw Juice Treated with a
Hydride
(H-)-donor Antioxidant (MegaH), measured across time.

My Typical Daily Diet
--
A sample menu of my meals, nutritional supplements and
snacks for one
day,
while eating such a diet. Beware, my diet shifts and evolves
continually,
as I am not a rigid person! Thus, this "typical diet" page is
usually
somewhat obsolete as soon as I publish it!

Nutritional
Supplements --
I take nutritional supplements, as I always have, but far less than
in the days before eating a largely-raw Paleo diet... Some
few
RVAF
systems, notably the Primal Diet, disapprove of taking nutritional
supplements. To learn more of my views and practices in the
area
of nutritional supplements
and raw diets, please see the page on this website entitled
Some Notes on Nutritional Supplements in Raw Diets.

Comments on Raw Dairy Foods--
My observations on their place in a RAF/RVAF diet. These are my
opinions
only. I feel that people vary widely in their ability, based
upon
genetics, to handle raw dairy, especially milk and yogurt.

Some
Observations on Fundamentalism and Rigidity in RVAF Diets and Raw Diets
in General-- Some observations from
the author
of this site
on rigidly prescriptive raw foods diets, including especially some of
the
raw diets which embrace raw animal foods (such as raw meat, raw fish
and
raw eggs). The author compares the fundamentalist approaches with
systems
and world views which are more empowering, and allow folks to develop
reliance
upon their own intuition and the signals from their bodies.

A Quick Comparison
Chartof Some Relevant RAF/RVAF Diets
--
Commonalities, Contrasts,
Emphases, Prohibitions, even a bullshit (BS) factor
scale.
This chart is bound to step on the toes of some folks, but offers a
clear
summary overview of the features of each major RVAF or near-RVAF (and
sometimes
part-RVAF) dietary system

Some
Notes
On Parasites (in mammal meat and fish), Including One True Story --
A true story of a rather radical raw foodist author (an advocate of
Instincto/Anopsology)
who suffered severe trichinosis in 1997 due to eating the liver of a
wild
carnivore. Apparently one of the few stories know in the raw
foods
eating world of a RVAF diet adherent suffering any kind of adverse
parasitic
"infection".

Brief Thoughts on Blood-Type
Dietary Schemas-- I am often asked
what I
think about blood
type (ABO grouping, RH factor) dietary schemas which purport to tell
people
which foods to eat and which to avoid. Here, in brief, my
thoughts.
This is a work-in-progress!

Suitability
of Frozen
Cascadian Farms Organic Berries for Use by Raw Food Eaters--
Many of us who like to eat berries year-round must often rely upon
frozen
berries. Most of us have been using Cascadian Farms berries
because
they are organic and seem to be of high quality. However, a
number
of folks in the raw foods world had also begun expressing doubts about
the quality (mainly: are they truly unheated?) of Cascadian Farms (CF)
berries, largely because of fears that quality control may have been
compromised
by their recent purchase by General Mills.

Pleomorphism--
a quick look at the theories of pleomorphism (shape-changing) among
microorganisms,
along with resources for further information. Also examines
the entire
issue of "bugs" (microorganisms) versus terrain as causative factors in
so-called "infectious" illness. Includes an overview on the
beliefs
about infectious illnesses common to a number of RAF/RVAF
Diets,
namely, that inner biological terrain has primacy, and that
"infections"
by microorganisms are simply due to imbalances in the inner terrain.

Addressing Rumors and
Myths Which Have Been Circulating About Sprays and Coatings on Organic
Produce--
In late
2000 and early 2001, rumors
started circulating in the raw foods world, especially among Los
Angeles-area
raw foodists, and especially among eaters of RVAF diets that the
organic
produce from Whole Foods/Fresh Fields was coated by petro-chemical
waxes
and oils, and that some of the petrochemical coatings were applied by
Whole
Foods personnel in the produce aisle. This article reports on
research
done by the author to get to the truth and dispel rumors and myths.

The
Negative Hydrogen
Ion-- The negative hydrogen ion (H-
ion) is a
powerful primitive,
primeval, primal, primordial and primary antioxidant found in all raw,
unprocessed foods (plant and animal) and in many "wild" unprocessed,
untreated
water supplies (glacial runoff water, high altitude wells and springs,
some deep wells, etc.) It was the original antioxidant for
life forms
on earth, and is likely the single most optimal antioxidant for life
forms.
It is destroyed or driven off by heat and
processing. Our ancestors
got a lot of this ion in their diets; we modern ("civilized") folk
often
get very little in our diets. This off-site article, at
another site
created by this author, describes the antioxidant properties of the
primal
antioxidant (aka the primeval antioxidant), the negative hydrogen ion
(H-
ion) -- found in ionized (reduced) alkaline water (also called
Electrolyzed
Reduced Water or ERW) and in MegaH (aka MegaH-). This site
also
describes
foods and other nutrients (as well as supplements) which contain the H
- primitive (primal) antioxidant.

Likewise,
many of the same vendors claim that
the acid water from
the ionizers has powerful disinfectant properties when used on skin, on
plants and on surfaces to be cleaned, and most of them claim that this
property is somehow due to the acidity of the water. What is
the
reality? Do alkaline water and acid water from ionizers
really do
what is claimed? If so, how do they achieve those
effects?
Click on the above on-site link to learn more!

Picking and
Using
Commercial and Household Water Ionizers--
A
brief guide to
commercial and household water ionizers, some guidelines for purchase
and
use, and an introduction to ORP meters. These devices produce
alkaline
ionized water, better called Electrolyzed Reduced Water
(ERW), which
contains copious quantities of the negative hydrogen ion (H- ion), a
powerful
primary, primordial, primal, primeval and primitive
antioxidant.

Vinny
is a multi-disciplinary scientist and engineer with extensive
experience plus undergraduate-level training in electrical engineering
and physics, and with a graduate degree (Master's) in the sciences.
However, he is also, first and foremost, a mystic and a spiritual
healer and spiritual guide/teacher. He lives his life in surrender to
Divinity, and has been given a Divine gift wherein he serves as a
window for Divine love and grace into this world. At the request of
Divinity, Vinny has created a webpage on his spiritual healing website
that gives page visitors a chance to receive, free-of-charge, some of
the flow of Divine love and grace. You are welcome to visit this page
at http://www.divine-heart.org/love-grace.html

The term "syntropic antioxidative microbes", or SAM, refers
to
microbes and microbial consortia (i.e., aggregate communities of
anywhere from
three to forty different microbes which work together cooperatively in
a
mutually-supportive community) that exhibit significant syntropic
(i.e.,
anti-entropic or negentropic) and antioxidative properties. Please note
that,
in nature, unlike in the artificial conditions usually found in the
laboratory,
microbes almost never exist alone as a single species (aka "strain")
and rather, tend to exist only in microbial consortia consisting of
from three
to over forty different species.

Some of the names by which various types of SAMs are
referenced in the fields
of health and agriculture across the world include: efficient microbes
(EM),
effective microorganisms, beneficial microorganisms (BM), Beneficial
and
Efficient Microbes (BEM), bio-syntropic microbes (BSM), Antiox Brew(s),
OZA,
Lanox Antioxidant Liquid, Vita Biosa, Compound Microorganisms (CM) and
others. There
are some microbial cultures found in the repertoire of the esoteric
"preparations" used in Biodynamic farming which also exhibit SAM
properties. -- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SAM-Apps/

More Articles
and
Research on
this site:

Some
Notes on Keeping Happy Healthy Chickens and Other Poultry in Your
Backyard --
The page is still evolving, but... In my yard I have about 20 chickens
(and a few ducks, geese, turkeys, Bantams and guinea fowl), which I
keep
primarily as pets and for eggs (I do not eat any of the
birds.) The
purpose of the webpage is to share some of my experiences and successes
in keeping my birds happy, healthy and well, with some notes
on caring
for them with sustainable near-organic (or even beyond-organic)
environmentally-friendly
methods.

An Overview of Body
Electronics: Effectiveness and Controversies--
A raw foods diet which includes some raw animal foods (as well as some
supplements) is one of four principal pillars of a natural healing
system
called Body Electronics (BE). This system has been labeled by
several
natural health writers (including Roy Kupsinel, MD) as one of the most
powerful natural healing systems in the world. BE was founded
by
the late John W. Ray, ND, in the 1950's and early 1960's in Northern
Wisconsin.
However, BE has also been rather controversial at times, primarily due
to some misadventures of it's founder, John Ray. Read more
about
it at this on-site page.

Elvis
Presley was really a raw foodist eating a RVAF diet--
and is still alive and youthful today in a Baltimore suburb, after
faking
his death years ago. Oops, sorry! I am
lying, I think... I will stoop to anything to get people to
read this
silly stuff!
Don't click the link -- it actually takes you offsite to HELL (hell.com!)

My
Sun-Gazing Site:

Sungazing,
aka sun gazing, solar gazing or sun staring --
Yes, staring
at the sun, also known as sun gazing or solar yoga; this has been
practiced
throughout the ages within a number of cultures and traditions. I (the
author of this site) have been sungazing since 1987. For more
information
on sungazing, including some well-known folks in the field and also the
different traditions, please see the page on this website entitled Sungazing
-- Observations and Notes

Upcoming
Articles:

Sunbathing
-- important for most
people who wish to maximize or accelerate
healing.

Evidence
of Increased
Mineral Needs
During Accelerated Healing.

RVAF
diets and gray hair -- there is
some limited anecdotal evidence that RVAF diets allow some delaying or
reversal of gray hair.

RVAF
diets and baldness -- there is
some limited anecdotal evidence that RVAF diets allow some delaying or
reversal of baldness, but the effect does not usually seem to be
particularly
strong.

Resources
for Folks Eating RAF/RVAF
Diets:

RVAF
E-mail List Groups -- There
are three e-mail list groups, each described in this on-site link,
which
are devoted to the various RAF/RVAF diets, one with an emphasis only on
the Primal diet of Aajonus Vonderplanitz, one of them with at least
some
emphasis upon the Primal Diet (aka RAF diet), and another totally
broadband.
There is a fourth list devoted to paleolithic diets -- both cooked and
raw -- which offers some coverage of raw paleolithic diets as well.

Mail-Order
Sources of Organic Grass-fed
Raw Cheese.
By the way, if your raw organic grass-fed dairy needs are for aged
ripened (cave-ripened) raw (organic and grass-fed) cheeses with rinds,
you may order such cheese via phone/mail from a distributor
for a Lancaster County, PA Amish artisan cheese dairy, by clicking
here for Tom's Amish Dairy Products website

Off-site
Links to
Other Resources for RVAF Diet Eaters:

The All Raw Times website
covers almost all aspects of raw diets, including raw foods diets which
include animal products. While not a primary source, but
rather more
of a reporting medium, you will almost always find at least a few
articles
on RAF/RVAF diets at this site.

While
not a primary source, but
rather a quarterly magazine devoted
to raw foods diets, Natural
Health
Many-To-Many (M2M) magazine explicitly includes
coverage and
articles
of raw foods diets which include animal products.

Ward Nicholson's Beyond Vegetarianism
(aka "BeyondVeg") website, largely founded by raw foodists and ex-raw
foodists,
aims to look at diets which are more inclusive than raw vegan diets.
While
many of the possibilities examined are RVAF dietary approaches, there
is
also some advocacy of cooked Paleolithic diets at this site. In the
site
author's own words: "Beyond
Vegetarianism: transcending outdated
dogmas. Reports
from veterans of vegetarian and raw-food diets, veganism,
fruitarianism,
and instinctive eating, plus new science from paleolithic diet research
and clinical nutrition."

Already
listed in links above on
Paleo diets, The
Paleolithic Diet website covers all types and
versions of
Paleolithic
diets, including both cooked and raw, and anything in-between. This is
a
very comprehensive website, with literally hundreds of good links to
sites
and pages on these topics, including wild foraging, Paleo recipes and
more.
In the site author's own words: "www.PaleoDiet.com - The Paleolithic
Diet
Page; What the Hunter/Gatherers Ate"

The
"Free World Order" maintains a Raw
Foods Directory website which contains links to
many raw
foods pages
and sources, including a number on RAF/RVAF diets. However,
(just
like you!) I too am wondering what the "Free World Order" is, but their
"information" page is an empty page, and thus I have little idea of
their
agenda!

The
Living and Raw Foods
website
is a large educational website devoted to primarily to vegetarian raw
foods
diets. However, this site also has a Personal Ads section,
and in
there one (hopefully single!) can find ads from folks who run the gamut
from raw vegan to fully-RVAF. On a bit of a strange note,
although
this site requires that folks who post or use personal ads must certify
that they eat at least 85% raw, every woman who has contacted me thru
this
service in response to a personal ad has eaten a largely cooked
diet!
The site is known both as RawFoods.com and Living-Foods.com. Click
here to visit living-foods.com

Durian!
Lastly, if you eat
a raw diet of any kind, you simply
must know about durian, the fruit of the gods, absolutely the most
incredible
food on earth. Follow
this link to learn more about this native Asian
fruit, which
is also
called "stinky fruit".

Click here
to go
to the Links page for this site. A few links also appear below.

Some
quick links:

The negative hydrogen ion (also
known
as the H-minus ion) is mainly
found in nature as a powerful antioxidant nutrient in raw, unprocessed
foods and in unprocessed water from certain wild
sources. The Negative
Hydrogen Ion website, at http://h-minus-ion.vpinf.com, is an
educational
website on this ion, containing even more information on this ion and
its
sources than found on the pages of this website.

The
Divine-Heart
website, at http://www.divine-heart.org - shares information
about
the heart-centered spiritual healing work of Vinny Pinto, who is also
the
author of this educational website on raw foods diets. Vinny
is a
non-local spiritual healer; his spiritual healing work involves no
contact
(called "non-contact" or nonlocal) and is often done
remotely. It
may seem odd that Vinny, who has trained as a scientist,
psychotherapist
and researcher (and also as an electronics engineer) would also offer
spiritual
healing, but he also has a very strong training background in energy
healing,
inner spiritual disciplines and acupuncture. He now
offers
only non-contact spiritual healing (sometimes called subtle energy
healing),
and feels that it is this work (far more than his research work or raw
foods educational work) which most "makes his heart sing".

MegaH™, MegaH-™ and Megahydrin™ are a registered
trademarks owned by Flantech
Group.
Nalgene® is a registered trademark owned by Nalge Nunc
International.

Donations
and Support for this Website

This freely-offered educational website has been totally
self-supported by the author, Vinny Pinto, since its inception (and
many of my websites were started between August 2000 and June 2003).
While I offer the content on this website freely, as a gift to all from
my heart, it is quite obvious that not only did my research in these
realms (and also my training, including formal education, that allowed
me to offer this material in the first place) incur costs, but there
are also monthly and yearly costs associated with web hosting, domain
registration, etc. As you have likely noticed, I have chosen not to
accept any advertising on any of my websites. As a result of all of
these factors, any funds that you might choose to donate toward
supporting my research work and this site will be very much
appreciated.

Thus, I am seeking donations to help me to support
this site -- even two dollars helps! If you wish to donate, you may do
so by using your credit card, ATM card, debit card, or transfer from
your bank account, via fully secure means. To make a
donation, please go to the Donations
and Support page ! All
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amount!

Thank you very
much! VinnyAgain --
If You Wish
to Make a Donation to this Site and it's Owner and Primary Author

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There
are now several
fermented
antioxidant nutritional supplement products (mostly liquid
brews/beverages) brewed with SAM Type 4 microbial consortia available
on
the market, across the Western world, including the USA. To
learn
more about such brews and vendors/producers, please see my syntropic
antioxidative microbes (SAM) website.

Click
here to go to our Links page. Our
links page lists some
RVAF diet-related sites as well as sites which are only peripherally
related
to RVAF diets, and may contain some links for commercial sites as well.

To
learn more about Vinny, his informational
websites and the various services which he offers, please feel free to
check out the Vinny Pinto Central Directory website, at http://www.vinnypinto.us

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